Lenovo doubles mobile device sales

Lenovo, the world's biggest maker of PCs,
has reported a 23% jump in profits as sales
of mobile devices doubled.
Net profit was a better-than-expected $174m
(£112m) in the April-to-June period, up from
$141m a year earlier, Lenovo said in a
statement .
Lenovo overtook Hewlett-Packard to become
the top PC maker this year.
However, as global PC sales decline, the
company has aggressively expanded into
smartphones, tablets and other mobile
products.
The firm's shares rose 2.4% in early trade in
Hong Kong.
Beating the trend
Lenovo said it had outperformed the global PC
market, which saw sales fall 11% during the
period, from a year earlier. Lenovo's desktop
PC shipments were flat compared with the
previous year.
However, for the first time, Lenovo's
combined sales of smartphone and tablets
overtook its PC sales during this quarter.
Sales of smartphones, tablets and other mobile
devices more than doubled from the same
period last year.
According to the firm, it is now the second-
biggest smartphone seller in China, with
shipments increasing by 121% from last year.
Lenovo has said it is also expanding into other
emerging markets.
It beat ZTE to become the world's fourth-
largest smartphone firm in the April-to-June
period, behind Apple, Samsung Electronics and
LG Electronics, according to research firm IDC.
Laptop sales, which Lenovo said account for
53% of its revenue, rose by 4.7%.